On the streets, breathing fire, fishing coins out of boiling oil, and putting on supernatural acts: they’re called occultists.
In the forests, reading fortunes with their fingers, studying yin and yang, and practicing feng shui: they’re called occultists.
In thatched cottages, examining patients and prescribing medicine, serving as skilled healers: they’re called occultists.
In the deep mountains, possessing people to pass on skills, subduing demons and exorcising evil, and serving Heaven as spirit mediums: they’re called occultists.
The stage magicians, wandering Taoist priests, reclusive physicians, and spirit-medium disciples here are all called occultists.
That old bastard originally told me this was how it worked. But in the end, he was the one who overturned the whole theory.
